Facebook's IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some interesting conclusions....Study: Twitter Sentiment Mirrored Facebook’s Stock Price Today
Facebook's IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some interesting conclusions....Twitter Ups the Privacy Ante Ahead of Facebook’s IPO
Twitter fired another salvo in the privacy wars, announcing that it will allow users to block it from recording their wanderings around the web. Take that, Facebook!
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Predict Facebook’s Friday Closing Price On FacebookIPODayClosingPrice.com
We were so proud of ourselves yesterday for posting a poll on what Facebook’s closing price would be Friday following the launch of its initial public offering Friday morning. And then programmer James Proud had to upstage us with a website dedicated...
Twitter Now Honors Mozilla’s Do Not Track Feature
Mozilla's Do Not Track feature, which allows users to tell websites that they would like to opt-out of being tracked by third parties, is starting to gain some traction among both users and publishers. According to new data shared by...How to Hide Your Tweets from Google [Privacy]
Provided you occasionally Google yourself you're probably well aware that your Twitter account is placed pretty high on Google's search rankings. Because of that it's usually best to make sure you're no...
Twitter and Reddit as crowdsourced fact-checking engines
New research about how news is verified through Twitter and a crowdsourced debunking of some fake Wikipedia entries reinforce the point that social networks and online communities can be powerful tools for the real-time verification of events, something that used to take place behind closed doors.
INFOGRAPHIC: 59.5 Percent Of News Via Social Media Is From Facebook
Nearly 30 percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a recent survey from Schools.com, which found that, among them, 59.5 percent of respondents get their news from Facebook, compared with 19.9 percent from Twitter, 12.7 percen...

Twitter does a lot of things right, but it still hasn't solved the problem of turning its noise into signal. After joining Twitter, it can take a lot of following and unfollowing scores of accounts before you've...